“Ellen had so much passion to bring to this role, and she was so true and honest about it. Her reasoning was that at fourteen, your attitudes are black and white and there are no shades of gray, because you haven’t lived yet. And Ellen wasn’t much past that age, but she’s very emotionally mature. When you’re driven with such passion, like the myth of the mother who can lift a car off her child, you are so empowered with that passion that you can unquestionably do anything. And she didn’t just play lip service to that, she went the whole way with that. God bless her for it, because it turned her into such a three-dimensional character.” (Regiessur David Slade über Ellen Page; Quelle: www.bww.cinematical.com)

“I wouldn’t say she’s evil or sick at all. I think she’s an extremely passionate, intelligent young woman. I actually found it kind of inspiring in a way, and in a symbolic sense perhaps. But no, I wouldn’t think she’s crazy or evil. I think she sees something wrong with society. She’s irritated that people are ignoring it and she’s going to do something about it.”(Schauspielerin Ellen Page über ihre Figur Hayley Stark; Quelle: movies.about.com)

“Actually, for me, it was actually a very interesting process, or, dare I say it, fun, because I know that I’m just playing a massive, massive trick on this guy. That said, I actually did go over surgical procedures and had the information as to how someone would actually do this. The difficulties of it were actually relatively superficial. The fact that we basically shot it all in a day which is actually quite a lot, there are like 14 pages of dialogue during this scene. I mean, I would look at Patrick and think, “You’re the one getting your balls cut off but I’m the one having to stand here and talk about it.” (Schauspielerin Ellen Page über ihre Erfahrungen am Set; Quelle: moviefreak.com)

"She was astonishingly advanced in terms of her intellect for anyone I've ever met of that age. I mean, really scary smart. And so committed to the character. And so committed to everything, really. And it shows. She's gone on to do amazing work."(Regiessur David Slade über die Zusammenarbeit mit Ellen Page; Quelle: www.winnipegfreepress.com)

“What’s so interesting about this film is that you have a character written for a fourteen-year old girl with intelligence and passion and when do we see that? Really not often. That’s why it was such a joy to play this character who I actually think is really honest and very real. Cus one of the criticisms this film gets - and I get - is that there’s just ‘no way that she could’ve done this’, well, I personally disagree.” (Schauspielerin Ellen Page über ihre Rolle; Quelle: DVD Kommentar)